Sanford Smitten
To a pair of ancient eyes, the fallen Governor of South Carolina has the hapless look of Edward VIII giving up the throne of England in 1936 for “the woman I love,” a man undone by unexpected passion after a lifetime of being trained to follow all the rules of a straight-laced society.
The bizarre details of his downfall testify to the emotions that must have overcome Mark Sanford–an Eagle Scout on his way to a presidential nomination suddenly disappearing, on Father’s Day weekend no less, into his own secret world and returning to confess publicly with the dazed look of a man with no rational explanation for his behavior.
Sanford is not in the mold of Bill Clinton, John Edwards, John Ensign, David Vitter, Eliot Spitzer and all those hypocritical politicians who cheat on their wives and voters for the erotic pleasure to which they feel entitled. Impulsively running off to Argentina and getting caught is not their style.
The Republican presidential field is now left to straight arrows like Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and other superior figures of personal morality, but there is a pang over the loss of a middle-aged romantic writer of e-mails…
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5 Responses to “Sanford Smitten”
Argentinian women in the highly populated areas in and surrounding the Buenos Aires province are notoriously beautiful and captivating, often highly educated, sophisticated and metropolitan, and BA is one of the most romantic cities in the Americas. I don't agree with what he did, of course, but I can imagine why he got caught up.
Robert Stein. . .i am so pleased you wrote this angle. . .and so agree for who are we to judge when a man such as Mark Sanford ” throws away the power over the masses”. . . .when maybe a little deeper it is his soul's finest moment?. . Who knows?. . .
Only one, Governor your no Jack Kennedy.
LOL
I'm a South Carolinian who could care less. He broke no laws and its between him and his family. Fidelity is no guarantee of doing a good job and infidelity is no guarantee of doing a bad one. I vote for who I think would be the best governor, I don't vote for who I think would be the best husband.
Governor Sanford who was originally invited to speak at the Conservative Values Voter Summit will no longer be featured.
I wonder why?
O yeah, he was dropped before his affair came to light
Is that called premonition?
Sanford missed the new GOP instructional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBKuRK1wD1A